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kpete

(71,984 posts)
Sun Mar 27, 2022, 10:21 AM Mar 2022

-- Chris Wallace, quoted by the New York Times, on why he left Fox News.

“I’m fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion. But when people start to question the truth — Who won the 2020 election? Was Jan. 6 an insurrection? — I found that unsustainable.
https://politicalwire.com/2022/03/27/quote-of-the-day-3166/


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Vinnie From Indy

(10,820 posts)
1. Wallace spent years on a network that cranked out lies.
Sun Mar 27, 2022, 10:24 AM
Mar 2022

He knew they were lying. He has zero credibility in my mind. He made his bed.

sop

(10,155 posts)
5. FOX News had been "question(ing) the truth" long before the 2020 election and January 6.
Sun Mar 27, 2022, 10:41 AM
Mar 2022

And "question the truth" is just another euphemism for lying, Mr. Wallace. I imagine your father is rolling over in his grave right about now.

kskiska

(27,045 posts)
6. He took the Fox job because ABC,
Sun Mar 27, 2022, 10:45 AM
Mar 2022

the network he was with, wouldn't promote him to anchorman. Fox offered it, so he took it.

Golden Raisin

(4,608 posts)
7. Classic too little, too late.
Sun Mar 27, 2022, 10:56 AM
Mar 2022

Apparently no problem whoring for Murdoch's blatant Propaganda/Lying network for all those years.

stopdiggin

(11,295 posts)
8. "Stop the Steal", January 6th, and an untethered Tucker Carlson ..
Sun Mar 27, 2022, 11:22 AM
Mar 2022

of course - you had to wade through the stench of 4 years of Donald Trump ...

- NYTimes, march, 27, 2022 -
- Mr. Wallace also acknowledged that he felt a shift at Fox News in the months after Donald J. Trump’s defeat in 2020

- Still, he acknowledged that some viewers may wonder why he did not leave earlier.

- “Some people might have drawn the line earlier, or at a different point,” he said, adding: “I think Fox has changed over the course of the last year and a half. But I can certainly understand where somebody would say, ‘Gee, you were a slow learner, Chris.’”


Yup. Still, a fair assessment probably has to acknowledge that Wallace was more willing to question the party line at Fox than a whole host of his colleagues.

Traildogbob

(8,713 posts)
10. Just unsustainable
Sun Mar 27, 2022, 12:46 PM
Mar 2022

Or outright unacceptable? If it where able to be sustainable would he think it was fine? Seems to have been sustained in Russia and North Korea just fine.

Bristlecone

(10,125 posts)
14. Everybody finds Jesus over there. Too little too late
Sun Mar 27, 2022, 01:16 PM
Mar 2022

As always. He is and will always be a shill pretending to be a man of integrity.

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